Associate Professor Barbara Maenhaut
Associate Professor

Barbara Maenhaut

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Background

Dr Barbara Maenhaut's research interests are in combinatorial design theory and graph theory.

She received her PhD from the University of Queensland in 1999. Her current research projects are in the fields of:

  • Graph decompositions
  • Latin squares and perfect one-factorisations

Availability

Associate Professor Barbara Maenhaut is:
Available for supervision

Fields of research

Combinatorics and discrete mathematics (excl. physical combinatorics) Mathematical Sciences Pure mathematics

Qualifications

  • Bachelor (Honours) of Mathematics, University of Waterloo
  • Doctor of Philosophy of Mathematics, The University of Queensland

Research interests

  • Graph decompositions

    A decomposition of a graph G is a set of subgraphs {H1, H2, ..., Ht} of G such that each edge of G occurs in precisely one subgraph Hi. If the subgraphs are each isomorphic to a graph H, then we say that H divides G. Recently, I have investigated several graph decomposition problems, including common multiples of pairs of graphs and decompositions into 2-regular graphs.

  • Latin squares

    A Latin square of order n is an n by n array of the symbols 1 to n in which each symbol occurs precisely once in each row and once in each column. I have recently been working with Dr Wanless (Monash) on Latin squares in which the permutation defined by any pair of rows is a full cycle, and on Latin cuboids (the generalisation of Latin squares to 3 dimensions).

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41 works between 1997 and 2024
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1997

Journal Article

Pointwise defining sets and trade cores

Delaney, Cathy, Gray, Brenton D., Gray, Ken, Maenhaut, Barbara M., Sharry, Martin J. and Street, Anne Penfold (1997). Pointwise defining sets and trade cores. Australasian Journal of Combinatorics, 16, 51-76.

Pointwise defining sets and trade cores

Current funding

  • 2024 - 2028
    Fractional decomposition of graphs and the Nash-Williams conjecture (ARC Discovery Project externally administered by Monash University)
    Monash University
    Open grant

Past funding

  • 2013 - 2015
    Factorisations of graphs
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2012 - 2014
    Virtual Transport Networks
    ARC Linkage Projects
    Open grant

Availability

Associate Professor Barbara Maenhaut is:
Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Completed supervision

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